📚 The Firedrake--Working on Ravensgame

Fantasy author who loves coffee, books, music, and the magic of words. Goldsong and Runedance are out, now I'm working on the third book, Ravensgame!

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With a lethal deadline looming over her, Traedis needs to find her uncle before it’s too late. But a new danger has emerged, and now she must learn the secrets of bardic runes before they topple her rule.

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The #bottle arced through the air, seeming float forever. As the apprentices grabbed for it, it crashed on the floor, shattering into glass fragments.

A purple cloud emerged: a smoky form solidified. "Which of you will be my new home?" it asked in wrathful tones.
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@eccentric_raven @DNicholsAuthor No. Only if the story calls for one. There are so many different stories to tell.

I'm partial to bittersweet myself, but YMMV.

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Wave and Current were a #duo no one could separate. From meeting in the temple as children to becoming priestesses of Ocean, they were heart sisters.

The knight who courted them both learned his mistake as they held him lovingly under the water, watching his breath wane.
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@Brennan_and_Riz Thanks!

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Gaping graves studded the cemetery, coffins open and empty. Dragging trails cut through the grass; shreds of flesh clung to fragile frosted blades. The gravedigger gibbered and would not speak.

The #ghoul had come for its feast, and it would not let mere life stop it.
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@Brennan_and_Riz Thank you!

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Eternal peace: #reward for a life well-lived. Teva had spent her life fighting against injustice, sword defending the innocent. She died on the battlefield, protecting a child.

Now at rest, she longed for more battles, innocents to defend. Eternal peace was not for her.
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It was the hour of the #wolf, when fog descended and ordinary transmuted to an eerie otherworld. A girl stumbled homeward, roots snaring her feet.

Behind her someone whistled: a tune that was all wrong. Fog closed in.

When night blew away the mist, only prints remained.
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@deidrejowen That is awesome!

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He was #ravenous for life; for souls; for the very sun in the sky: nothing would assuage his endless appetite. He would tear through the gods and consume their abode, then swallow the netherworld.

Finally, he would devour himself, and at last he would be sated.
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She missed the gryphon races: wind rushing past her in a wave; the crowd #cheering; adrenaline waking every pore. But her mount had fallen, and they could not be bred in captivity.

Now she was here on the heights where they nested. She would steal a cub or she would die.
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Hi, friends! Here is my spooky little October flash piece!

My 2019 and some of my 2020 flash pieces are free!

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The brochure promised amazing experiences. Visit the past and mold the future. For a small fortune more, step into other dimensions, alter the fate of trillions.

Its most seductive package was unaffordable to all but a few: #travel into the stars and become a god.
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They came, #fueled by the mutual need to rid their world of the intruders. The foot folk, the sky folk, the water folk: all ended their wars and joined forces.

No longer fractured, the planet's consciousness prepared to repel the greedy thieves who plundered its wealth.
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The #unexpected squall hit during rush hour, its curtain halting traffic. From it strode a giantess: hair like a sheet of silver, eyes featureless as pearls.

"You are mine now," she said in a storm-laced voice. "You have called me with your acid factories and I am here."
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It took #bravery for Tati to go outside. It was easier to stay indoors, living on fifteen years of canned goods stored in the shelter, ignoring poisonous air and the orange glow of the horizon.

But Tati had a reason: the children needed a teacher. Even one with scars.
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The sea was #calm for the first time in days. At first the crew was glad to quit a storm-slick deck. But one day turned to two, then a week of windless sails.

They began to hear scrabbling at the hull; snatches of wild song; a deep gong sounding through the waters.
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She felt the #siren call of illicit magic in her garden. Allowed only beauty-thornless roses, daisies, snapdragons-she longed for the abandon of foxglove or bright nightshade berries.

In time, her garden shaped itself, familiar plants offering balm or poison at her will.
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The floating #island hovered above the palace. Used as a summer residence, the Emperor loved to look down, imagining his next conquest.

The unknown assassin who scaled a rope and climbed through the clouds to push the Emperor off was hailed as an international hero.
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